Like a Good Neighbor: Childhood Neighbors Influence Occupation Choice -- by Michael J. Andrews, Ryan R. Hill, Joseph Price, Riley Wilson

We are grateful to Christian Ames, Thomas Barden, Carver Coleman, Maxwell Dunbar, Zach Flynn, Jimena Kiser, Josh Nicholls, Ethan Pixton, Abbie Sanders, Rebekah Todd, Margaret Truman, and Conner Wilkinson for outstanding research assistance. We would like to thank Patrick Bayer, Barbara Biasi, Sandra Black, Nicholas Carollo, Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathan Hendren, Song Ma, Stephen Ross, Carolyn Stein, Zach Ward, Melanie Wasserman, and Seth Zimmerman for helpful comments as well as audiences at Clemson; Northwestern; NYU; UC Merced; Towson; Yale; Mannheim; University of Southern Denmark; Rutgers; Oklahoma; Queens; San Diego State; University of New South Wales; Vanderbilt; Economic History Association Meetings; the NBER Mobility Conference; Opportunity Insights Conference; CEPR Applied Microeconomic History Workshop; Association for the Study of Economics, Religion, and Culture Conference; the Cliometric Conference; IPUMS/NDIRA Data-Intensive Research Conference; and the NBER Children and Families Summer Institute for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.